Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Romans 10:21
An unbelieving and gainsaying people — Just opposite to those who believed with their hearts, and made confession with their mouths.
An unbelieving and gainsaying people — Just opposite to those who believed with their hearts, and made confession with their mouths.
Verse Romans 10:21. _BUT TO ISRAEL HE SAITH_] In the very next verse, (Isaiah 65:2,) _All day long have I stretched forth my hands_, manifesting the utmost readiness and willingness to gather them al...
BUT TO ISRAEL HE SAITH - The preceding quotation established the doctrine that the Gentiles were to be called. But there was still an important part of his argument remaining - that the Jews were to b...
CHAPTER 10 _ 1. Israel's Condition. (Romans 10:1 .)_ 2. Righteousness by Works and by Faith. (Romans 10:5 .) 3. The Gospel Published Abroad. (Romans 10:14 .) 4. Israel's Unbelief. ...
THE REJECTORS OF GOD'S MESSAGE. Romans 10:16. Hearing the glad tidings is the opportunity of salvation: can it be that they did not hear? Nay, surely, the sound has reached every land. Not hearing, b...
THE MISTAKEN ZEAL (Romans 10:1-13)...
How are they to call on him on whom they have not believed? How are they to believe in him of whom they have not heard? How are they to hear without someone to proclaim the good news to them? How are...
STRETCHED FORTH. Greek. _ekpetannumi._ Only here. Used of. bird expanding its wings. UNTO. App-104. DISOBEDIENT. See Romans 2:8. GAINSAYING. Greek. _antilego._ See Acts 13:45. PEOPLE. See Act
_to Israel_ Better, WITH RESPECT TO ISRAEL. _All day long_, &c. Isaiah 65:2; verbatim with LXX., but with slight variation of order of words. The phrase is parallel to "rising up early and sending," ...
The quotations show that the refusal of the Jews to respond to the Gospel and the consequent call of Gentiles was anticipated by prophets, from Moses to Isaiah, and typified by the experience of the p...
E. Romans 9:1 to Romans 11:36. THE REJECTION OF THE GOSPEL BY ISRAEL The theme of Romans 1:16-17 has been worked out; it has been shown that the Gospel is a power of GOD unto salvation for them that b...
ΈΞΕΠΈΤΑΣΑ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΚΠΕΤΆΝΝΥΜΙ (G1600) распространять, протягивать. ΆΠΕΙΘΟΎΝΤΑ _praes. act. part. (adj.) от_ ΆΠΕΙΘΈΩ (G544) противоречить, возражать, ΆΝΤΙΛΈΓΟΝΤΑ _praes. act. part. (adj.)...
DISCOURSE: 1892 CHRIST MADE KNOWN TO THE GENTILES Romans 10:20. _Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me. But to...
_TEXT_ Romans 10:14-21. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? Romans 1...
But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people. BUT TO, [ pros (G4314) to (G3588)] - rather, 'But with regard to' Israel he saith, A...
__ Justification-National 18 The proclamation of the gospel of the kingdom, beginning in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, spread to the limits of the land (Act_1:8), and reached beyond it to...
10:21 says, (p-5) See Isaiah 65:2 . opposing. (q-21) Or 'contradicting.' 'Disobeying' or 'not believing' is _ apeitheo_ , as chs. 2.8; 11.30,31; 15.31. see Note e, John 3:36 ....
ISRAEL REJECTED THROUGH LACK OF FAITH In Romans 9 St. Paul, defending the gospel against objections founded upon the fact that it had been rejected by the Jews as a whole, showed that God had never bo...
From Isaiah 65:2. GAINSAYING] i.e. contradicting. It was obvious that the Church of Christ was coming to be almost entirely a Gentile Church, and that the Jews as a whole were refusing to accept Jesus...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 10 THE LAW AND *FAITH 10:1-13 V1 *Brothers and *sisters, my greatest desire is for the people from *Israel to accept *...
TO ISRAEL. — With regard to Israel. HE SAITH. — Isaiah, speaking as the mouthpiece of God. ALL DAY LONG. — This quotation is from the next verse to the preceding, and there is no such distinction in...
(14-21) Thus there is a distinct order — belief, confession, invocation. But before either the last or the first of these steps is taken the gospel must be preached. The Jew, however, cannot plead tha...
CHAPTER 21 JEWISH UNBELIEF AND GENTILE FAITH: PROPHECY Romans 10:1 THE problem of Israel is still upon the Apostle's soul. He has explored here and there the conditions of the fact that his brethren...
πρὸς δὲ τὸν Ἰσραὴλ λέγει : That is what he says of the Gentiles, but as for Israel, he says, etc., Isaiah 65:2. For πρὸς = with reference to, see Hebrews 1:7 f., Luke 12:41. The arms outstretched all...
NEEDING MESSENGERS OF GOOD TIDINGS Romans 10:11 The Chosen People chafed, not only at the freeness of God's justifying grace, but because there was no difference made, so far as salvation was concern...
The apostle ever had in mind the Master Himself when he spoke of the righteousness of God. The idea of that righteousness, held by Israel was due to their misunderstanding of the written law, their ig...
After the preaching of Christ, and his apostles, after so many wonders wrought by our Saviour, he at last offers himself to the Jewish people, with stretched-out hands, and yet they cannot be induced...
What leads up to this verse is the lively feeling of the contrast between the conduct of Israel and that of the Gentiles. It sums up the idea of the whole chapter: the obstinate resistance of Israel t...
Paul has justified the matter of his preaching, salvation by grace; he now justifies its _extension._ Not that, as Baur, Holsten, etc., think, he wishes thereby to remove the scruples of the Judeo-Chr...
“ _But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me. But to Israel he saith, All the day long I have stretched forth my...
REFLECTIONS What a beautiful example the great Apostle of the Gentiles holds forth to all that minister in the Gospel of Christ, in his earnest desire and prayer to God, for Israel's salvation! With...
How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? (15) And how shall they preac...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
_THE OUTSTRETCHED HANDS_ ‘All day long have I stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.’ Romans 10:21 When we think of Calvary we see Jesus stretching forth His hands all t...
21._But of Israel, etc. _A reason is subjoined why God passed over to the Gentiles; it was because he saw that his favor was become a mockery to the Jews. But that readers may more fully understand th...
Having touched on this subject, the apostle, who deeply loved his nation as the people of God, pours out his heart with respect of the doctrine which was a stumbling-stone to them. His desire, the aim...
BUT TO ISRAEL HE SAITH,.... Or against Israel, or concerning Israel he saith in the same prophecy in Isaiah 65:2. ALL DAY LONG I HAVE STRETCHED FORTH MY HANDS, UNTO A DISOBEDIENT AND GAINSAYING PEOPL...
But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people. Ver. 21. _Stretched_] A metaphor from a mother....
_But I say, Have they not heard_ As if he had said, Their unbelief was not owing to the want of hearing. For they have heard; _yes, verily_, &c. So many nations have already heard the preachers of the...
STRETCHED FORTH MY HANDS; in kind invitations of mercy. A DISOBEDIENT AND GAINSAYING PEOPLE; who continued to oppose his messengers and reject their message. As they continued to reject him, he would...
BUT TO ISRAEL HE SAITH, ALL DAY LONG I HAVE STRETCHED FORTH MY HANDS UNTO A DISOBEDIENT AND GAINSAYING PEOPLE. Paul had stated that the preaching of the Gospel to both the Jews and the Gentiles was in...
Faith and unbelief in their relation to the Gospel:...
CONTRAST BETWEEN ISRAEL'S LAW AND THEIR NEED OF GRACE In Romans 9:1 we have seen God's sovereign title maintained in having an elect people according to grace. Now inRomans 10:1 the contrast between l...
How do we get faith? A. Hearing the word of God. B. Study, meditate, learn the word of God. NOTE: Faith also comes from putting that learned to the test in our lives. 18 BUT: Haven't they heard? Y...
AND ISAIAH IS VERY BOLD, AND SAITH,. WAS FOUND OF THEM THAT SOUGHT ME NOT;. BECAME MANIFEST UNTO THEM THAT ASKED NOT OF ME. Romans 10:21 But as to Israel he saith, All the day long did. spread out m...
18-21 Did not the Jews know that the Gentiles were to be called in? They might have known it from Moses and Isaiah. Isaiah speaks plainly of the grace and favour of God, as going before in the receiv...
BUT TO ISRAEL HE SAITH; viz. in ISAIAH 65:2. In the former verse there is a consolatory prophecy, foretelling the vocation of ignorant and profane Gentiles; and in this, there is a menacing prophecy,...
But as to Israel he saith [Isaiah 65:2], _All the day long did I spread out of my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people_. [Here Isaiah presents the full contrast between the Gentiles and Jews...
Dialogue of Justin And Isaiah likewise mentions concerning Him the manner in which He would die, thus: `I have spread out My hands unto a people disobedient, and gainsaying, that walk in a way which...
Romans 10:21 But G1161 to G4314 Israel G2474 says G3004 (G5719) All G3650 long G2250 out G1600 ...
GOD HAS SENT OUT HIS MESSIANIC MESSENGERS TO THE WORLD BUT ISRAEL HAVE NOT LISTENED (10:14-21). Having established that salvation is to be found through faith in Jesus the Messiah, and that it is bein...
‘And Isaiah is very bold, and says, “I was found of those who did not seek me, I became manifest to those who did not ask of me.” But as to Israel he says, “All the day long did I spread out my hands...
Romans 10:21. BUT WITH RESPECT TO ISRAEL; not ‘to,' nor yet, ‘against' The contrast is between ‘Israel' and the Gentiles referred to in the prophecy (Romans 10:20). HE, _i.e._, Isaiah, speaking for G...
2. MAN'S RESPONSIBILITY: THE JEWS EXCLUDED THROUGH THEIR OWN UNBELIEF. For convenience we may divide this passage into two sections: (I.) Chap. Romans 9:30-33 sets forth the fact that the Jews had not...
II. _Proof that the Jews were Excluded through their Unbelief._ The section may be divided into four paragraphs: The Jews with all their religious zeal failed to recognize (1.) Christ as the end of t...
ALL THE DAY LONG (ολην την ημεραν). Accusative of extent of time. He quotes Isaiah 65:2.DID I SPREAD OUT (εξεπετασα). First aorist active indicative of εκπεταννυμ, old verb, to stretch out, bold...
Romans 10:21 The appeal which Jesus Christ makes, with His hands stretched out upon the cross, to the hearts of Christians is twofold. 1. It is an appeal on behalf of God's standard of holiness, and...
Romans 10:1. _Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved._ Desire is the mother and the soul of prayer «my heart's desire and prayer.» These Israelites had...
CONTENTS: Israel's failure explained by unbelief. The plan of salvation. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Moses, Isaiah, Paul. CONCLUSION: Sincerity is not a ground of safety; self-righteousness is not a gro...
Romans 10:1. _My heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved._ Chrysostom's comment is, my “vehement desire” for their salvation. St. Paul having declared his mind, in the...
BUT CONCERNING ISRAEL HE says. The "hands held out" symbolize that love which pleads with Israel all through its history, and which they constantly despised and turned away from. Their problem was not...
_But I say, Have they not heard?_ Yes, verily, their sound went into all the earth. Observe I. The original application of these words--voices in nature. II. The apostolic use of them--the multitu...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 10:20 Isaiah 65:1 has been fulfilled. Gentiles WHO DID NOT SEEK after God have now experienced God’s saving promises. Israel, on the other hand,
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 10:20.—εὑρέθην, I was found; used of God when exciting men by His benefits to seek and worship Him. Romans 10:21.—Eben Ezra informs us that Moses Hacoben said Romans 10:20 is...
EXPOSITION In this chapter the view of the whole subject introduced at Romans 9:30 is continued and carried out, according to which the present rejection of the Jews as a nation is traced to no absolu...
Now Paul again reaffirms his love and desire for his brethren after the flesh. Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they...
1 Peter 2:8; 1 Samuel 8:7; 1 Samuel 8:8; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; Acts 13
Disobedient - gainsaying [α π ε ι θ ο υ ν τ α - α ν τ ι λ ε γ ο ν τ α]. See on John 3:36; Jude 1:11. Disobedience is the manifestation of the refractoriness expressed in gainsaying. Some explain gains...